''Maxanapis'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of Australian

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

spiders in the family

Anapidae Anapidae is a family of rather small spiders with 233 described extant species in 59 genera. It includes the former family Micropholcommatidae as the subfamily Micropholcommatinae, and the former family Holarchaeidae. Most species are less than ...

, first described by

Norman I. Platnick Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and Arachnology, arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History#Richard Gilder Gradua ...

Raymond Robert Forster Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of The Entomological Society of New Zealand. Biography Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educa ...

in 1989.

Species

it contains nine species: *'' Maxanapis bartle'' Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland) *'' Maxanapis bell'' Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland) *'' Maxanapis bellenden'' Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland) *'' Maxanapis burra'' (Forster, 1959) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *'' Maxanapis crassifemoralis'' (Wunderlich, 1976) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *'' Maxanapis dorrigo'' Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (New South Wales) *'' Maxanapis mossman'' Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland) *'' Maxanapis tenterfield'' Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *'' Maxanapis tribulation'' Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)

References

Anapidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Australia Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Anapidae-stub